Method: Time#httpdate

Defined in:

lib/time.rb

#httpdate ⇒ Object

Returns a string which represents the time as RFC 1123 date of HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616:

day-of-week, DD month-name CCYY hh:mm:ss GMT

Note that the result is always UTC (GMT).

require 'time'

t = Time.now
t.httpdate # => "Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:26:12 GMT"

You must require ‘time’ to use this method.

# File 'lib/time.rb', line 695

def httpdate
  getutc.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %T GMT')
end